Chris is a WordPress developer born and raised in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Currently living in Halifax and working in Bedford, he has been developing professionally with WordPress for the past four years. He has spent a lot of time looking into a dev stack that makes WordPress easier to maintain, and more enjoyable to develop with.

What’s been your best experience with WordPress?

So far it’s been getting a maintainable stack up and running at my company. It’s very rewarding to see lots of hard work come together to make everyone’s lives a little easier.

Tell us a bit about your WordCamp Halifax talk

Getting a WordPress setup working can be a little overwhelming on your own, or downright unruly with dozens of sites. My talk is about standardizing an environment that makes WordPress development easier to maintain.

What’s your favourite thing about WordCamps, or if your first one… what are you looking forward to?

I’m looking forward to getting a chance to talk with all the other speakers about their experience with WordPress.

Let’s get philosophical… what are you most proud of?

Finding a career path I enjoy, and am also good at.

Session Details

An overview of some of the tooling that makes developing and maintaining WordPress a little easier. A high-level overview of Bedrock (including Composer), Twig templating with Timber, WP-CLI, Laravel Valet, Local by Flywheel, Visual Studio Code with helpful extensions and PHPCS.